Art: April 2008 Archives
A friend returned from Berlin today bearing pictures of works by esteemed Italian artist Blu. They kind of speak for themselves.
This month, Adidas had two 15 foot Superstar trainers built: one for the left foot (of a giant) and another for the right. They then sent one to LA and one to NY and got an artist collective from East and West to represent their respective coastline: the East coast collective, Surface2Air, took care of the right shoe; and Upper Playground, from San Francisco, took care of the left. The whole process was recorded on film before the NY shoe was packed up and driven to Venice Beach where it was reunited with its long lost left-footed brother...
CHECK THE LINK BELOW FOR THE FULL VIDEO.
Continue reading THE LEFT RIGHT PROJECT.
In 2002, Canadian artist Melanie Coles won a trip to the U.S. with her high school courtesy of NASA, and, in a stadium filled with students, they watched a live photo of themselves beamed onto a big screen from a satellite camera in space. Now, though, those cameras won’t be looking for Melanie, but for Waldo, known here in the UK as the literary legend Wally of considerable Where’s Wally fame. From vinyl sheet, and with the help of her little team, she’s created a giant Wally that, when the Google cameras update, will show up on Google Earth. And so the whole planet becomes the latest update to the Wally books: Where’s Wally for the 21st Century.
Read more about it here or follow the link below for an interview with Wally himself.
Continue reading WHERE ON EARTH IS WALLY?.
